Charles Finney Tambling (November 1, 1871 – May 6, 1958)[1] was an American college football, college basketball, and college baseball coach. He served as the head football coach at Central Michigan Normal School—now known as Central Michigan University—from 1902 to 1905 and again in 1918. Tambling was the head basketball coach at Central Michigan from 1904 to 1910 and again from 1917 to 1919. He was the school's head baseball coach from 1901 to 1907. Tambling was also the head of the physiology and physical training department at Central Michigan.[2] Tambling graduated from Oberlin College. He moved to Redlands, California in 1937. He resided there for ten years before moving to Cathedral City, California, where he died on May 6, 1958.[3][4]
 Tambling pictured in Chippewa 1919, Central Michigan yearbook | |
| Biographical details | |
|---|---|
| Born | November 1, 1871 Oberlin, Ohio, U.S. |
| Died | May 6, 1958 (aged 86) Cathedral City, California, U.S. |
| Coaching career (HC unless noted) | |
| Football | |
| 1902–1905 | Central Michigan |
| 1918 | Central Michigan |
| Basketball | |
| 1904–1910 | Central Michigan |
| 1917–1919 | Central Michigan |
| Baseball | |
| 1901–1907 | Central Michigan |
| Head coaching record | |
| Overall | 18–2 (football) 60–36 (basketball) 9–6 (baseball) |
Head coaching record
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edit| Year | Team | Overall | Conference | Standing | Bowl/playoffs | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Central Michigan Normalites (Independent) (1902–1905) | |||||||||
| 1902 | Central Michigan | 4–0 | |||||||
| 1903 | Central Michigan | 6–0 | |||||||
| 1904 | Central Michigan | 0–1 | |||||||
| 1905 | Central Michigan | 7–1 | |||||||
| Central Michigan Normalites (Independent) (1918) | |||||||||
| 1918 | Central Michigan | 1–0 | |||||||
| Central Michigan: | 18–2 | ||||||||
| Total: | 18–2 | ||||||||
References
edit- ^ Oberlin College. Phi delta literary society (1901). Register of the Members Both Graduate and Non-graduate of Phi Delta Literary Society, Oberlin College. News printing Company. Retrieved April 14, 2015.
- ^ 1910 Chippewa yearbook, pp. 50–51.
- ^ "Person Details for Charles Finney Tambling, "California Death Index, 1940-1997" — FamilySearch.org". familysearch.org. Retrieved April 14, 2015.
- ^ "C. F. Tambling Passes Away". Redlands Daily Facts. Redlands, California. May 13, 1958. p. 5. Retrieved July 26, 2016 – via Newspapers.com.
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